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New Zealand doctors and euthanasia-legal and practical considerations of the End of Life Choice Act.
N Z Med J
September 2020
Associate Professor, Waikato Clinical Campus, University of Auckland, Auckland.
Aim: To provide an overview of the New Zealand End of Life Choice Act in comparison with other countries, arguments for and against euthanasia, and consideration of relevant legal and practical issues.
Method: Structured descriptive summary of criteria for medical euthanasia in various jurisdictions currently allowing the practice, compared with New Zealand legislation. Narrative review of arguments for and against euthanasia with reference to existing medical literature and legal cases.
(1) In France, legislation adopted in 2005 recognises the right of dying patients to refuse further treatment, and the right of physicians to ease their suffering with treatments that, due to adverse effects, may shorten their life. Measures deliberately aimed at hastening death are forbidden. (2) In Belgium, medical euthanasia was decriminalised in 2002, and can now be carried out either in hospital or at home.
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HIV Med
January 2001
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Background: In the debate about legalization of euthanasia very little attention has so far been given to the opinion of the patient.
Objective: To assess the opinion of persons with HIV infection in Europe.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of persons with HIV infection attending HIV/AIDS treatment centres or HIV support organizations in 11 European Union Member States was performed.
In different countries responses to important bioethical issues are different, as exemplified by the attitudes towards the voluntary and active forms of medical euthanasia. But why is this the case? My suggestion is that the roots of the variety are, to be considerable degree, ideological. The most important present-day political ideologies all have their roots in the prevailing doctrines of moral and social philosophy.
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